How does GPS tracking work?

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With Pinpoint Europe, we have saved money on fuel as well as cutting journey times within our fleet, it does what it say on the tin, excellent product with friendly efficient people………………
Tony Hughes, MD. Hughes Safety Showers

We had been looking to update our telematics on our vehicles. With Pinpoint, we found a fantastic price beating all others plus easily fitting within minutes (even I fitted one) Pinpoint with better service and system information. It’s a no brainer!!!!
Andy Lumsden (Sales Director)Tandom Metallurgical Group Ltd

How does GPS tracking work?

So how does GPS tracking work? Below is a brief overview of how the gps tracking system network tracking vehicle locations, reports vehicle positions and ultimately how the data ends up on our servers for you to view on your PC, Tablet or mobile device.

The Global Positioning System

1. The GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite sends down timing positional signals to earth which are picked up by satellite receiver in the PinPoint unit inside the vehicle. The PinPoint unit calculates how long the signal took to travel from the satellite to the PinPoint unit and from this information it can produce the longitude and latitude of the Vehicle.

The Pin Point unit transmits the vehicle location

2. The PinPoint unit then transmits the longitude and latitude information using the GSM (Global System Mobile) mobile phone network to the PinPoint computer servers. In The USA, Canada, Korea or Japan we use the CDMA mobile phone network as GSM is not always available in these regions.

Data transfer via mobile phone network to internet

3 and 4. Data from the vehicle is transfered to the internet via the extensive mobile phone network, if no signal is available data is queued until a signal is available and then sent to the internet

Information is collated on our servers

5. The PinPoint computer servers then make this information available via the Internet for our client who have the correct information to access their online pinpoint account.

View vehicle details via web or app

6. The customer can then login to their PinPoint account with any internet enabled PC, Tablet or Smartphone from anywhere in the world. Once they have logged in to their account from the PinPoint website, they can then see in realtime all the vehicles in their fleet. They will be displayed on our google mapping platform.

The PinPoint mapping platform allows a person with a master username and password to view all the vehicles in their fleet. This allows the owner or fleet manager to have total control of all the vehicles. Other passwords will allow the manager of a department or an area to only see the vehicles they are responsible for in their area. There is also an android app to make keeping track of your vehicles easy.

Alerts can be set up for over speed or over revving the engine. Geo-fence will alert you when a vehicle leaves an area. The PinPoint unit also records an accurate daily, weekly and annual mileage. There are many more features with the PinPoint system so why not contact us to find out more.